Adze head

Iñupiaq
Western Arctic
Arctic

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collected 1920s-1930s

Iron, bone

Overall: 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Doris Meltzer

163.22.15091

Geography

Place Made: Point Barrow, United States, North America

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Woodworking

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Axel Rasmussen, in the 1920's and 1930's [until his death in 1945]; Earl Stendahl; to Doris Meltzer, Meltzer Gallery, New York; given to present collection, 1963.

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